UK computer scientists sign a letter criticising the ongoing neglect of Bletchley Park - home of the wartime codebreakers.
The first official image of a proposed joint Russian and European manned spacecraft is unveiled.
Green groups accuse the UK government of trying to sabotage Europes rules on renewable energy.
The Arctic is estimated to hold some 90bn barrels of oil, according to data from the US Geological Survey.
Tiny fossils time the climate shift which gave rise to Antarctica's Dry Valleys, a landscape akin to Mars.
Bottlenose dolphins whistle more to their newborns, perhaps to stop theft by other females, researchers say.
A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, scientists suggest.
Blood vessel changes linked to poor health later in life can be spotted within a few years in boys born small, say scientists.
Newsnight's Susan Watts joins a team of scientists travelling to the Arctic to carry out crucial climate research.
The planet's rich diversity of life needs to be preserved in its entirety because it is vital for our long-term survival.
Humans are using too much nitrogen, and leaving so much of it that the natural world is struggling to cope.
Bletchley's role in the computer revolution
Violence gets in the way of gorilla conservation
Why I challenged Channel 4's climate documentary
The team work on imaging ice in the Martian soil
A Green New Deal could sort climate, energy and banking
Do legal issues lag behind science on anti-doping?
Scientists say a drug to treat aggressive prostate cancer may be the most significant advance in the field for 70 years.
The number of animals used in UK labs for scientific experiments is now more than three million - a level not seen since 1992.
The tobacco plant - a cause of cancer - may offer the means to treat one form of the disease, a study suggests.
Serious question marks hang over a key drug test just two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games, a BBC investigation finds.
A giant physics lab on the Swiss-French border is being cooled to a temperature lower than that of outer space.
The decision not to cull badgers in England to control tuberculosis in cattle is flawed in the short-term, say MPs.
The government should set a deadline for coal power stations to "clean up" or close, a parliamentary committee says.
Another white humpback has been sighted off Byron Bay on the east coast of Australia.
The discovery of 150 million-year-old dinosaur prints puts Madar villagers in rural Yemen on the map.
Five years without fishing around the UK's Lundy Island have led to revival of its lobsters and other sea life.
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